The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-12-23
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGS

NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.
in Lebanon county. Pa, last week
big hawk caught young skunk and carried
it for some distance, finally dropping it in
disgust.
The Great Eastern, which originally
cost 50, 500, 600, and was sold year ago for
sl25. 600. has again been sold at auction in
Liverpool for 500. 600.
Miss Rose MunsOn. of birmingham,
Mich, is pretty gooc-szed girl of her age.
She is only Is. but she tips the beam at 2O9
pounds and is growing.
The owl Is regarded by many of the
Congo tribes as a bird of i'll omen. 1t Is be
lieved to bear an evil spirit, capable of in
citing an enemy to do mischief
The Chester, s. c., local paper an
nOunces the marriage of William Aiken,
co!ored man claiming to be 1O3 years old, to
a young widow of 50 years named Susan
Watson. both of Chester county.
The orange t-ee and the lemon are both
descended from the citron. The history of
the orange tree is said to date back to the
crusades. the returning Pilgrims carrying it
into Europe 200 or 800 years ago.
John Owen Snyder. the famous walk
ing man of Mill Grove, Ind, is dead. He
had walked almost constantly, night and
day. for three years, and his path around
his house was worn to a deep fuTrow.
The bodies of the four Anarchists who
were hanged November IIth in Chicago, as
well as that of Lineg, were paced in their
final resting place in Waldheim Cemetery
! on last Sunday. There was no disorder.
Lightning struck a basket of eggs IN a
farmyard-near Meriden, Miss, not long ago
and a man who witnessed the descent of
the electric fluid solemnIy declares that it
hatched out chickens from several of the
! eggs.
Charles Whitsett. half-witted boy,
| aged Is years, went out walking one dav
/ last week at Columbus. Ark. with bis
brother. aged years, and his sister. aged 6
| years, and cut off the heads of both With a
J large knife, which he showed his mother on
/ his return.
While a lady at Xenia, o., was prepar-
/ ing feed for her chickens recently the dia-
mond in her engagement ring dropped into
! the mixture. and the loss was not noticed
until the feed had been eaten by the fowls.
! 1t became necessary to massacre 1Ochckens
/ before the stone was found, but it was
/ found at last.
Mrs. Hcgarth. of First avenue, New
York, was visited the other day by a woman
who is one Of her neighors. They greeted
! each other cordially, embracing and kissing
/ While the visitor had one of her arms
around Mrs. Hogarth's neck she put bel
hand in that lady's pocket and took pock-
! etbook containing SIS.
In many portions of Idaho, Nevada and
! Wycoming the rabbits are so numerous that
they are becoming almost as great a plague
as in Australia. The proprie:ors of a large
ranch are giving boys . cents a piece foI
killing them, aud some OF the boys earn as
much as s. each per day. The dead rabbits
are fed to hogs to fatten them.
"A gentleman writing from Bavispp,
Mexico, the scene OF the earthquakes, SAYS
the entire town has been destroyed and
many persons killed. The provisions and
supplies provided by the State and from
/ private sources are exhausted and the entire
vicinity is destitute OF provisiors ard cloth
/ ing, and unless aid IS furnished soon they
may starYe.
AT Chicago. on Saturday last. John,
I Samuel ana James Littlejohn, farmers FROM
/ Dakota. advanced six bundled dollars ten
porauly to a supposed stockm man, whose
acquaintance they made on the train. He
gave them as security a thousand dollar
government bond. Iu the evening. wher
he failed to keep bis appointment to return
to them, they learned that the bond was 8
/ counterfeit.
/ -Kangaroo leather has become so decid-
edly popular for shoes that g. 900 skins arr
received and tanned in Newark alone eacI
. week. But that means most Of the skin!
l used for they are sent all over the world
from the Jersey tanneIies. One result il
. that kangaroo hunters in Australia are max.
ing money. They get 30 cents pound Iol
skins, and some OF them clear from - 600 tC
| 8. 600 year.
A - blI! was received at the redemption
bureau, in Washington, the other dav, will
a statement attached that it had been ex
posed TO contagious isease. and, aItll oug'
fumigated, had better receive careful hand.
. ling. When the young woman who re.
: ceiyed it read the warning, It is told, sh,
I dropped the bill with a scream, whIcl
brought ifty other young women in TIT
, division crowding around her desk.
"A telegram from Kansas City, No, say
/ that W. ii. GTiuter, a well-kDown stock
man. OF Munice, Kansas, and W. II. Rsqua
. a wealthy citizen OF Fort Scott. were hunt
ing in the wilds of Ozark county on Satur
dag OF last week. RsqUa mistook Grinter'
head for wild turkey AID sent a load o
buckshot into him. Grinter, supposing
had been done purposely, became enraget
and returned the fire. killing Raqua instant
/ ly. GrIIter died half an hour afterward.
The sudden appearance of water il
many wells in southern Wisconsin that havt
been perfectly dry since the drouth OF las
/ SIMMER has caused no little wonder anon!
the people. Wells are filled almost to tn
top; streams run IN abundance from sid
hills and from springs that have long besr
I dry, and the creeks and small rivers. who's
beds have been dry for months, are gradu
ally rising and bid fair to become formida
bic streams. The phenomenon occurret
during the night.
! james Rankin. q VOunp farmer Iivin,